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I was covering the Supreme Court when it decided Gideon v. Wainright, and the case has always had special meaning for me.

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• 'The Waltons' was profoundly important after years of wandering around. I was 44 and cut off from family and friends. It nurtured me back to a sense of family and who I am. It was a transforming experience.

  

  Ralph Waite
  • Important
  • Family
  • Experience

• And I think I have a perspective about Hollywood that you don't see very often in the press.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • You
  • Perspective
  • Hollywood

• It seems that if you put people on paper and move them through time, you cannot help but talk about ethics, because the ethical realm exists nowhere if not here: in the consequences of human actions as they unfold in time, and the multiple interpretive possibility of those actions.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Time
  • Help

• I'm not a Facebook girl. Even though there is a fake Facebook with my name, it's not me. I'm not on Twitter; it's not me.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Girl
  • Name
  • Fake

• I would like to be a legend, everyone wants to be a legend.

  

  Yohan Blake
  • Like
  • Everyone
  • Legend

• I grew up in a two-parent household. We all played sports, all sports, which cost a lot of money. My pops was an attorney; he went to College of the Holy Cross with Clarence Thomas. My mom worked a bit, then gradually came home and took care of us full time.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Up
  • Time
  • Money

• People just want to have access to all of the world's music.

  

  Daniel Ek
  • People
  • World
  • Music

• As long as you are successful and winning matches, the language is no problem at all. But when the results are insufficient, the difficulties begin. At this time, a coach needs to go into more detail with his instructions, and that's where the problems can lie.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • Time
  • Long
  • Winning

• What is the meaning of human life, or of organic life altogether? To answer this question at all implies a religion. Is there any sense then, you ask, in putting it? I answer, the man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Life
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• You enjoy being put in that position. You want to be in that position. As a kid you always think about making big shots to win a game or send a game into overtime. Even to this day, I still have dreams like that.

  

  Eddie Charles Jones
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• Don't forget to pray today because God did not forget to wake you up this morning.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Up
  • God
  • Today

• When she told a story, she rolled her eyes and waved her head and was very dramatic.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • She
  • Eyes
  • Story

• Life ain't fair. It ain't. Not never.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Life
  • Never
  • Fair

• After a while I started to think of that as an image of something that went a lot deeper than the dead dog, which is you can't bring back anything to life.

  

  Alan Alda
  • Life
  • Dog
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• By helping others, we make ourselves better, and by helping others heal, we heal ourselves. I think we can do that on an individual level and a worldwide level. I hope people have a chance to give that a little bit of thought.

  

  Charles Martin Smith
  • People
  • Giving
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• We decided that 'trivial' means 'proved'. So we joked with the mathematicians: We have a new theorem- that mathematicians can prove only trivial theorems, because every theorem that's proved is trivial.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Prove
  • Mathematics
  • Decided

• Odd, the years it took to learn one simple fact: that the prize just ahead, the next job, publication, love affair, marriage always seemed to hold the key to satisfaction but never, in the longer run, sufficed.

  

  Carolyn Heilbrun
  • Job
  • Marriage
  • Run

• I was covering the Supreme Court when it decided Gideon v. Wainright, and the case has always had special meaning for me.

  

  Anthony Lewis
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